Calgary Mindfulness Weekly Meditation

What is a better thought? Rewiring our thinking habits with meditation

Thanks for participating in our weekly Sunday 15 minute meditation. This week we continue our exploration of toxic thinking. In our practice, we identify thoughts that may be harming our well being, and restate them in ways that restore our agency and joy.

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Mindfulness of Toxic Thinking - Thoughts & Emotions 2

Thanks for participating in our weekly Sunday 15 minute meditation. This week we continue to explore mindfulness of our thoughts and emotions, in noting our particular thoughts that block our ability to receive love, abundance, wisdom, clarity and so on.

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The Importance of Understanding Our Beliefs & Values - Mindfulness Meditation

Thanks for participating in our weekly Sunday 15 minute meditation. This week we explore the beliefs and values that underpin our thoughts and emotions. All our perception is controlled by what we believe. Do we feel unworthy of love, respect, community? Do we feel at war with the world? Then all our perception will line up to prove these beliefs true. Know thyself! Do we want this for ourselves and others? Is this how we can offer our highest and best to ourselves and others?

To...

Happy Mother's Day! Meditation for our mothers, mother figure and for the divine feminine

Thanks for participating in our weekly Sunday 15 minute meditation. This week we explore gratitude and loving kindness for our mothers, mother figures, as well as amplifying important qualities of the divine feminine like nurturing the unity of all life and receptivity to listening to our intuition and to divine guidance.

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What is happiness? Temporary vs Long-Lasting Happiness

Thanks for participating in our weekly Sunday 15 minute meditation. This week we continue our exploration of happiness, and explore the "things" we think we need to be happy vs. the qualities we want to experience while happy - these are spiritual, not material - ease, rest, comfort, worthiness, and so on.

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Thanks for participating in our weekly Sunday 15 minute meditation. This week we continue our exploration of releasing our blocks to happiness and appreciation in the moment.

To watch this practice, please visit our Youtube Channel at https://youtu.be/mj5jHREJ93k

If you enjoy this podcast, we invite you to leave a good review and share with your friends! For more information about Calgary Mindfulness, or to join our weekly practice, please write CalgaryMindfulness@Gmail.com, where we welcome your questions, comments and intentions for future meditation practices. We offer workshops and instruction and...

Releasing Our Self-Imposed Blocks to Happiness

Thanks for participating in our weekly Sunday 15 minute meditation. This week we explore the ways we hold on to our grievances instead of allowing ourselves to enjoy ease and joy in our circumstances and relationships.

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Easter Meditation - Celebrating our Connection with the Creator

Thanks for participating in our weekly Sunday 15 minute meditation. This week we celebrate our connection with all other people, and our Creator, Source Energy, God.

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Thanks for participating in our weekly Sunday 15 minute meditation. This week we piggyback off of the daily ACIM meditation for today--the light has come--in order to share loving kindness with ourselves and others, in particular those situations, relationships and circumstances where we are experiencing conflict, lack of flow and ease, and stress about lack of control.

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Mindfulness Meditation for Relieving Stress and Self-Nurturing

Thanks for participating in our weekly Sunday 15 minute meditation. This week we explore mindfulness meditation techniques for stress management and supporting relaxation, ease and resilience. To watch this meditation, please visit https://youtu.be/5EPKWqctx_8.

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Mindfulness Meditation for Defusing Anxiety: Grounding Techniques for the Senses

Thanks for participating in our weekly Sunday 15 minute meditation. This week we explore a grounding technique for the senses that can help defuse anxiety when we are feeling stressed out.

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Self Love: Giving Ourselves Loving Kindness

Thanks for participating in our weekly Sunday 15 minute meditation. This week we explore being kinder to ourselves in a loving kindness meditation.

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Thanks for participating in our weekly Sunday 15 minute meditation. This week we explore how our thoughts of self-sabotage can be quite pervasive despite how detrimental they are to building our emotional resilience and spiritual open-heartedness.

If you enjoy this podcast, we invite you to leave a good review and share with your friends! For more information about Calgary Mindfulness, or to join our weekly practice, please write CalgaryMindfulness@Gmail.com, where we welcome your questions, comments and intentions for future meditation practices. We offer workshops and instruction and much more! For information, please visit www.CalgaryMindfulness.ca <...

Thanks for participating in our weekly Sunday 15 minute meditation. This week we explore facing our deepest worries, and sitting with the anxiety they bring to mind.

To watch this practice, please visit our Youtube Channel at https://youtu.be/qBMDs1XZ90s

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Thanks for participating in our weekly Sunday 15 minute meditation. This week we explore forgiveness, with the knowledge that all condemnation of others is self-condemnation. We can disagree with others without dehumanizing them. We can work to forgive the transgressions of others, just as we work to let go of our own big mistakes that have hurt others.

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My Unloving Thoughts Are The Cause of My Suffering

Thanks for participating in our weekly Sunday 15 minute meditation. This week we explore how our unloving thoughts are the cause of our suffering. We continue our exploration into how to improve our resilience in times of suffering.

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Seeing Beyond the Surface: Compassion for Others

Thanks for participating in our weekly Sunday 15 minute meditation. This week we explore seeing beyond the surface in our interactions with others. We sit with visualizations for conflict management that allow us to see, hear and feel beyond the surface of the words, emotions and actions of others, so that instead of being triggered into mirroring high-conflict behaviour we can manifest compassion to move past present-moment discord.

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Thanks for participating in our weekly Sunday 15 minute meditation. This week we explore mindfulness of perception and goals. Each perception, thought, choice, word and action aligns us with love or fear/hate. Which are we choosing? To watch this video, visit https://youtu.be/BHPO8ojUKqs

If you enjoy this podcast, we invite you to leave a good review and share with your friends! For more information about Calgary Mindfulness, or to join our weekly practice, please write CalgaryMindfulness@Gmail.com, where we welcome your questions, comments and intentions for future meditation practices. We offer workshops and...

Thanks for participating in our weekly Sunday 15 minute meditation. This week we explore anger and the development of self control. We suffer when we react emotionally to everything that is said to us. When others' words & actions control our emotions, we allow them to control us; we surrender our power and agency. When we develop the ability to prioritize a mindful response to external stimuli, we affirm our peace and power.

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Thanks for participating in our weekly Sunday 15 minute meditation. This week we are back to where we started in Sept 2025, how to foster inner peace in a turbulent time. Thich Nhat Hanh teaches that other human beings are not our real enemies; our true enemies are the internal forces of ignorance, hatred, anger, fear, discrimination, greed, and violence within ourselves that cause suffering, which then manifest outwardly.

We undertake a breathing meditation to help nourish this inner ease. To watch this meditation, please visit https://youtu.be/nC1pN1zS4pg.

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Thanks for participating in our weekly Sunday 15 minute meditation. This week we explore letting go of defensiveness and needing to protect ourselves, and look at how we can approach the world around us with curiosity and wonder, which gives a greater understanding of our true agency. When we're on the defensive, we can only react to the negative stimuli around us with more negativity; when we're ready to appreciate and create, we pave the way for enjoyment and resilience.

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Thanks for participating in our weekly Sunday 15 minute meditation. This week we explore setting intentions for the new year. Our topic is authenticity: having an inner and outer experience, mind/body/heart congruence, so that we don't feel like we're checked out of any part of our lives. Authenticity is key to self-compassion and enjoying the little things that make up life.

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Greetings meditators, continuing our preparations for the Christmas, Hannukah and holiday season with meditations upon generosity.

Last week we covered ways to be generous with ourselves, and today we explore a generosity practice for others.

Generosity doesn't equal giving STUFF to others, but our loving, full presence without an agenda for control and change.

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Good day! In today's practice, we begin preparations for the Christmas holiday season, and our first theme is generosity. Not with stuff, but with our attention, focus, and presence, for ourselves and others.

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Greetings! Today is part 3 of our work with mindfulness & depression. We have a guided practice that explores focus on sensations in the body and visualizations.

To watch today's practice, please visit https://youtu.be/T0dL8n-Q4fw

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We offer workshops and instruction and much more! For information, please visit www.CalgaryMindfulness.ca

Kind regards,

Rosanna D'Agnillo, Founder and Lead...

Welcome! Our second sit regarding depression.

In today's practice, we continue our exploration of thoughts of fear, shame, anxiety, and work through a couple breathing practices to help bring these thoughts to light and to release their hold on our stream of consciousness.

To watch this practice, please visit https://youtu.be/F2grqobkAa8

For more information about Calgary Mindfulness, or to join our weekly practice, please write CalgaryMindfulness@Gmail.com, where we welcome your questions, comments and intentions for future meditation practices.

We offer workshops and instruction and much more...

Good morning and welcome to our weekly Sunday meditation.

We began this season with mindfulness approaches to managing stress and anxiety in difficult times, and now after a couple weeks of honoring the Day of the Dead and Remembrance Day with loving kindness meditations, we are moving on to a new theme: the mindful exploration of depression.

Meditation isn't "enough to fix" depression, especially if people are really struggling with long term or major depression, but it can provide an opportunity to understand what we're feeling and thinking.

Often when we're feeling down...

Good morning & welcome to our annual remembrance day meditation.

Today we practice loving kindness for those that have passed on during the violence humans inflict upon one another in war.

We also meditate upon our own peaceful thoughts, from the premise that peace comes from within, and that the world we perceive and create can only reflect the violence, discord, and un-ease within if we do not work to understand our own lack of peacefulness first.

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Today, it's about mindfulness of toxic mistrust! Greetings and welcome to our FIFTH session of the autumn 2025 season, Today, we use mindfulness of thoughts as our primary anchor to continue to explore developing the embodied presence.

We are tasked with noticing thoughts of toxic mistrust that arise during our practice and then returning to the breath. Toxic mistrust can manifest against ourselves (we feel unworthy of the love, attention, care of others) against our inner circle (my family/colleagues/friends don't love, respect, etc me enough and want to take my stuff) and the world generally (the...

Welcome to our Sunday morning meditation. Today we're taking a break from our current series on how to keep your cool in stressful times. Today we stop to celebrate our ancestors and loved ones who have passed on, in loving kindness meditation.

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For more information about Calgary Mindfulness, or to join our weekly practice, please write CalgaryMindfulness@Gmail.com, where we welcome your questions, comments and intentions for future meditation practices. We offer workshops and instruction and much more!

Greetings! In today's podcast, we continue our theme of nurture our inner strength when the external world seems very stressful. This topic is the gift that keeps on giving, since we have approached it from many different angles in the seven episodes of this season!

Today, we explore mindfulness of emotional intensity - how many of our thoughts and emotions are at the red hot end of the spectrum--rage, anger, frustration? How much time do we spend steeping in this toxic tea? If an honest looks finds us there more often than not, then: not only is...

Welcome to our Sunday 15 minute mindfulness meditation, where we explore how to investigate and nuture our thoughts of toxic mistrust. We go further than last week, where we explored how to recognize and acknowledge it.

Today we learn techniques for investigating and nurturing these self-sabotaging thoughts. What is toxic mistrust? Toxic mistrust can manifest against ourselves (we feel unworthy of the love, attention, care of others) against our inner circle (my family/colleagues/friends don't love, respect, etc me enough and want to take my stuff) and the world generally (the world/government/ strangers) are out to...

Today, it's about mindfulness of toxic mistrust! Greetings and welcome to our FIFTH session of the autumn 2025 season, Today, we use mindfulness of thoughts as our primary anchor to continue to explore developing the embodied presence.

We are tasked with noticing thoughts of toxic mistrust that arise during our practice and then returning to the breath. Toxic mistrust can manifest against ourselves (we feel unworthy of the love, attention, care of others) against our inner circle (my family/colleagues/friends don't love, respect, etc me enough and want to take my stuff) and the world generally (the...

Greetings and welcome to our FOURTH session of the autumn 2025 season, where we are dedicated to listening to and developing our inner strength at a time when there seems to be so much more public stress and chaos.

Alas it is now too cold to meet outside early in the morning! I will schedule alternate indoor times at least once monthly for our group to meet!

Today, we use EMOTIONS as our primary anchor to continue to explore developing the embodied presence; paying attention to any emotions that arise during our breathwork, and then returning...

Greetings and welcome to our third session of the autumn 2025 season, where our next few practices are dedicated to listening to and developing our inner strength at a time when there seems to be so much more public stress and chaos. To watch this video, please visit https://youtu.be/WmKt2nZqrWE .

(We are meeting in person while the weather remains warm in Calgary, thus allowing us to enjoy awesome Calgary parks, so if you're local and would like to sit in person, please email Calgary Mindfulness @ Gmail.com.)

Today, we use the body scan...

Greetings and welcome to our second session of the autumn 2025 season, where our next few practices are dedicated to listening to and developing our inner strength at a time when there seems to be so much more public stress and chaos.

(We are meeting in person while the weather remains warm in Calgary, thus allowing us to enjoy awesome Calgary parks, so if you're local and would like to sit in person, please email Calgary Mindfulness @ Gmail.com.)

Today I thought to continue to another anchor but in fact the breath is our foundation and...

Welcome back to our autumn session! I hope you had an excellent summer.

Our next session of weekly Sunday 8am meditations is guided by many of the participant suggestions we received over the summer, and most have to do with: "how do I keep my equilibrium when the world seems to be going crazy?"

From a meditator's perspective, we turn to awareness of the body and senses. Often we are operating in a trance, angry state, completely unaware of how we are mostly feeling and thinking. Once in a while we "correct" our thinking with...

Greetings, this is our final broadcast and podcast before the summer hiatus, where we will be meeting in person in the Calgary area in our usual meditation flashmobs! I hope you can join us. Please email me at CalgaryMindfulness@gmail.com to register for our meetings (free of charge, but registration is required).

When? Mostly on weekends I'll be travelling with my sweetheart and family so we will meet some weekends when I'm working in town, and some weeknights otherwise. It's been an excellent year. Thanks to the hundreds of people that continue to send in your...

This is our seventh annual Summer Solstice Meditation! To watch our practice, please visit https://youtu.be/8WcAM7HAs8Y

For folks like me in the northern hemisphere, where it is light by 4:30 and not dark until midnight here at the 51st line of latitude in Calgary, the summer solstice is a magical time of growth and power; every plant is bursting with life and green. It is very beautiful. There's a wonder in nature that is comforting and uplifting, and we connect with this today in our meditation.

The second anchor of our practice...

This is our seventh annual Summer Solstice Meditation! To watch this practice, please visit https://youtu.be/8WcAM7HAs8Y.

For folks like me in the northern hemisphere, where it is light by 4:30 and not dark until midnight here at the 51st line of latitude in Calgary, the summer solstice is a magical time of growth and power; every plant is bursting with life and green. It is very beautiful. There's a wonder in nature that is comforting and uplifting, and we connect with this today in our meditation.

The second anchor of our practice...